Competing with China’s Digital Silk Road
Via The Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), commentary on China’s Digital Silk Road: Former U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson’s call to create “situations of strength” [...]
Chinese Power Loans Fueling A Debt Trap In Pakistan
Via Asia Times, an article on how Chinese power loans are fueling a debt trap in Pakistan: Pakistan is the latest nation struggling to repay Chinese loans extended under the Belt and Road [...]
Striking Oil Is No Antidote for What Ails Cambodia’s COVID-hit Economy
Via Geopolitical Monitor, an article on the potential impact that an oil discovery will have upon Cambodia’s economy: In the final days of 2020, Cambodia extracted its first crude oil from the [...]
Uzbekistan Prioritizes Pakistani Over Iranian Ports
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how Tashkent – in an effort to access seaports at lower costs and shorter distances – may look to Pakistani ports as the answer: Tashkent has been [...]
Oil Company OMV Petrom Leaves Kazakhstan
Via The Diplomat, an article on the decision of another investor to leave Kazakhstan, highlighting the worsening business climate: At the end of December, OMV Petrom sold its assets in Kazakhstan, [...]
China Looks To Buy Telecoms Assets In The Pacific islands
Via the South China Morning Post, an article on how providing telecommunications services is part of China’s growing interest in developing an economic and strategic presence in the South Pacific: [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.